History 2201E Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Appeasement, Japanese Canadians
11 Jul 2012
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Lecture 16 part 2 canada during world war ii. World war ii: league of nations remained impotent when hitler grew more and more aggressive. Policy of appeasement adopted by britain and france in terms of nazi germany, canada agreed with it. King thought hitler was a harmless peasant who had what was best for his people on his mind: hitler comes to power legally in 1933, had germany withdraw from the league of nations. Starts to build up army in 1935, against treaty of versailles. Britain, france and italy sanctioned germany taking. 1938: germany annexes austria, league does nothing and also takes rest of czechoslovakia: ussr and stalin feared by the western powers, keeping germany stable was crucial. Better the nazis than the communists: ship full of jewish refugees denied entrance to canada after it had been denied by usa and cuba. All ended up in concentration camps: king knew canadians didn"t want another war.
